Today's Bad News for Donald Trump
"A White House official who listened to President Trump's July 25 call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky will tell House investigators on Tuesday that he was so alarmed by the Ukraine pressure campaign that he twice alerted a top White House lawyer. Lt Col. Alexander Vindman, who has served on the National Security Council since 2018, will recount overhearing U.S. Ambassador to the E.U. Gordon Sondland — a key player in the pressure campaign — discuss with Ukrainian officials the need for the country to launch investigations into the 2016 election and the Bidens in order to secure a Zelensky meeting with Trump." This is…what? The fifth or sixth bit of corroborating testimony that backs up the whistleblower? Fuller details here.
Today's Outrage by Donald Trump
Trump keeps saying he's in favor the U.S. seizing the assets of other countries — Iraq's oil, especially. This is a blatant violation of international law but Trump either doesn't know or doesn't care, probably both. Jonathan Chait has more. And as Will Peischel notes, Trump wants to keep Climate Change off the agenda of topics to be discussed at the next G-7 summit. Lovely.